Lest we forget: SPORE

[Gus Smedstad]

Whatever.

 - Gus

[Solowren]

"My knowledge of Latin Roots.  Let me show you it."

Sure, if you like. That particular word happens to be a pet peeve of mine when used incorrectly. I have extremely limited knowledge of Latin roots, to be honest.

At least you know what it actually means now.

[rufio]

Eh, the dictionary actually claims that that's a obsolete meaning, and I've always heard it as a synonym for "destroy" or "partially destroy" anyway.  I'm not really sure how you'd quantify destruction of the environment, anyway.

[Ellatrue]

Actually, hunter-gathering societies actully had more free time.  What caused civilization as we know it to come into existence was the division of labor that you addressed before and the fact that there was an upper-crust that didn't have to do much of anything. 

There's a difference between "free time" and division of labor. People could be craftsmen, or elite warriors, because when other people were getting the food and producing it more efficiently, it allowed specialization (or even the development of an "upper crust," which could not have existed without it). Hunter gatherer societies don't have much in the way of different people developing different skills. Also, that statement makes no sense coming from your position.

The hunter-gatherer societies were generally very egalitarian, so the complex social structures never developed.

The "complex social structures" that define a civilization? Thank you for proving my point. I win!


I tried downloading the .png files from the spore site, but the pics they give you are actually a different file: xyzmonster_lg.png (the large preview pic) instead of xyzmonster.png. The large pics don't seem to contain any data--I tried putting them in the "my creatures" folder and it didn't work. Possibly you can get the right png files by logging in, but you need a valid key to register.

[rufio]

Actually, hunter-gathering societies actully had more free time.  What caused civilization as we know it to come into existence was the division of labor that you addressed before and the fact that there was an upper-crust that didn't have to do much of anything. 

There's a difference between "free time" and division of labor. People could be craftsmen, or elite warriors, because when other people were getting the food and producing it more efficiently, it allowed specialization (or even the development of an "upper crust," which could not have existed without it). Hunter gatherer societies don't have much in the way of different people developing different skills. Also, that statement makes no sense coming from your position.

I think we are saying the same thing, but you are saying it better.  I never claimed that hunter-gatherer cultures had complex social structures.  I'm sorry if it sounded that way.

[Milhouse Trixibelle Saltfucker III]

Ellatrue: You may have a better shot by downloading the png that you click to make the large preview window appear; I can't actually test this out, but it seems that those pics are the "xyzcreature.png" to your "xyzcreature_lg.png".

[Solowren]

Yes, the smaller, clickable images work.

[rohina]

Sporepedia is worse than the exchange in terms of signal to noise. Anyone got any ideas for finding good stuff vs crap?

[Zazazu]

I just look at the features and then click on the creators for more stuff by them. The guy who made that sushi monster I like made a whole bunch of other ones as well as these neat creatures masquerading as plants.

[Ellatrue]

Sort by "most popular." Click on the creators you like to visit their page.

[Solowren]

Yes, I go by either most popular or featured. Everything else is crap.

[cwieberdink]

I d/l the FOJ's creature pack and fired up the game tonight.  Shortly after migrating to my new nest in creature, I came across, and allied with, a Rogue Buttolino.  I now have a ginormous purple creature as part of my pack.    

[jsalemi]

FYI, I found the cause of my graphics glitches -- I did a google search on it, and turned up a recommendation on a couple of Spore sites that you don't run it full screen on resolutions greater than 1600.  I have a wide screen monitor that runs at 1680x1050, so naturally I used that setting.  Cutting it down to a lower resolution solved pretty much all the graphic glitches I was having.

[witch]

My sound is terrible, I obviously need to update my sound drivers. I keep forgetting till I'm in the damn game again and have to turn the speakers off.

[SuperRi]

This incredibly stupid question has caused me to delurk, I'm sorry!

I live in Japan, so I had planned on ordering Spore online and just dealing with the crappy download system in order to play it. However, for some reason, despite working fine before, the website now INSISTS on always redirecting me to the EA Japan site, and no matter what I do I can't get back to the US site in order to buy the damn game in English and with my American payment methods. (If I do get the US store, the 'add to cart' button does nothing. Excellent!)

So I decided to arr the game.

This is my first time arring a game. I admit I don't really know what to do. I'm a bit of a n00b. I've got the iso unpacked, but how do I install without an activation key? I'm sorry for the real stupid question, but I figured you guys would answer without giving me a preachy moral lecture.

Thanks!

[edit] I'm stupid and figured it out! I didn't see the link on the torrent site originally. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time! 

[witch]

Check out gamecopyworld, it has?/had some excellent tutorials. You'll need software to load the iso, then you will be able to see the contents of it, just like any CD/DVD. There will most likely be a crack directory on the iso. Read the nfo file (open in notepad) for directions.

[jsalemi]

And the crack directory should contain a keygen program for the game; you run it to get a random key that works.  It helps to copy the key and save it in a text file so you have it handy for future reinstalls.

ETA: The first official shot has been fired in the DRM war: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/24/ea-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-spore-drm

[witch]

ETA: The first official shot has been fired in the DRM war: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/24/ea-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-spore-drm

Excellent! Be most interesting to see the outcome of that.

@SuperRi - do not run the game with the original exe! Make sure you are using a No CD file, which can also be found at gamecopyworld. If you patch the game you will need to update the No CD file. If you run the game as original, there will be a rootkit installed on your machine.

Mind you, if it's an ARRed copy it probably won't run without a crack anyway.